Example sentences of "[be] [adv] down to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AMIDST THE wild-ish scenes , L7 are delightfully down to earth . |
| 2 | Incomers tend to see this in class terms as well — pilots are generally upper crust , while engineers are more down to earth ( socially as well as literally' ) Since many incomer workers are ex-military the distinction is often phrased in military terms : officers and ‘ other ranks ’ . |
| 3 | They are still down to earth but holy as well . |
| 4 | First courses are probably down to vegetable soup or corn-on-the-cob without salt or butter . |
| 5 | Hewlett-Packard Co shares plunged a week or so back after a warning that its fiscal third quarter earnings to July 31 would be flat , and the news that it posted a net of $191m or 76 cents a share , compared with $192m or 76 cents a share last year , suggests that times have become exceedingly hard in the Unix market this summer , and that Sun Microsystems ' weak fiscal fourth quarter ( UX No 397 ) may not have been solely down to product line transitions . |
| 6 | The reality could not be more down to earth and straightforward , though there is much more to this player than meets the eye . |
| 7 | When the smoke clears Pain Teens turn out to be more down to earth , a punky bar band who occasionally stray into territory that can best be described as extra terrestrial . |
| 8 | ‘ I think it 's just down to maturity . |
| 9 | But going for gold these days is more down to money than motivation . |
| 10 | The third source is more down to earth . |
| 11 | The rest , ’ he modestly argues , ‘ is maybe down to talent . ’ |
| 12 | The English are too down to earth for successful symbolism . |
| 13 | He was always down to earth and had very little imagination . |
| 14 | The journey through Louisiana was more down to earth . |
| 15 | The Kitchenware Records spokesperson , brought up on Newcastle Brown , was more down to earth . |
| 16 | It was straight down to business here . |
| 17 | But she insisted that Elizabeth Bowen was also down to earth : |
| 18 | He was often down to earth in that way . |